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Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life (1884)

Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 201

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ber of the Zoeas of one of those intermediateform s which are the connecting links between the Crabsand Lobsters : I mean Galathea. The adult animal is 188 EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE. of a broad squat form, something like what you mightsuppose a Lobster to be, if it had been flattened betweentwo… … ADULT SHORE-CKAB. You perceive that there is a general similarity betweenthese transparent little creatures and the Zoea described1 »y Mr. Couch; but there are great differences in detail.The glassy shield or carapace shoots out in front in a stiff,inflexible, very fragile spine. This is perfectly…

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